Snap’s “reckless disregard for the safety of minor users” allows sexual predators to use its social media platform to target and exploit minors, alleged a negligence complaint Friday (docket 3:24-cv-03068) in U.S. District Court for South Carolina in Columbia.
Communications Litigation Today is tracking the below lawsuits involving appeals of FCC actions. Cases marked with an * were terminated since the last update. Cases in bold are new since the last update.
Americans “detest” calls they didn’t ask for, but the Insurance Marketing Coalition’s challenge of the FCC’s Dec. 18 order implementing rules under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act to target and eliminate illegal robotexts (see 2312220059) “is not a case about unsolicited calls,” according to the coalition’s opening brief Wednesday (docket 24-10277) in the 11th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court.
Utopia Games agreed to develop MovieZu’s mobile app for iOS and Android operating systems, letting users create and sell “Hollywood-quality” animated movies. However, Utopia hasn’t delivered as promised, a fraud complaint alleged (docket 1:24-cv-03804) Thursday in U.S. District Court for Southern New York.
Global Tel-Link charged incarcerated and nonincarcerated persons rates in excess of the contract rates for certain electronic communication services in West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation (WVDCR) facilities, alleged a fraud class action Thursday (docket 1:24-cv-00827) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia in Alexandria.
The Philadelphia Inquirer’s April 29 notice letter about a May 2023 data breach includes three pages devoted to steps victims can take to help protect their personally identifiable information (PII), said a class action (docket 2:24-cv-02106) Thursday in U.S. District Court for Eastern Philadelphia. Steps included enrolling in credit monitoring services the defendant is offering victims, it said.
Spotify slashed the reported service provider revenue for its Premium subscription offering to the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) by half on March 1, without advance notice, by “improperly characterizing the service as a different type of Subscription Offering and underpaying royalties,” alleged the MLC's Copyright Act complaint Thursday (docket 1:24-cv-03809) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.
When a district court finds that a lawsuit involves an arbitrable dispute, and a party requests a stay pending arbitration, Section 3 of the Federal Arbitration Act compels that court to stay the proceeding rather than dismissing it, said the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion Thursday (docket 22-1218) in Smith v. Spizzirri, delivered by Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
Verizon and Coinbase caused the theft of $452,000 belonging to a Verizon customer following a SIM swap at a Verizon Wireless store in Indianapolis, alleged plaintiff Bryan Volz’s complaint Wednesday (docket 1:24-cv-01416) in U.S. District Court for Maryland in Baltimore.
An Alabama city's moratorium preventing Brightspeed from installing the aerial portion of its fiber optic network to make the network operable for high-speed broadband service violates the Communications Act, state law and “basic principles of legal equity,” alleged Brightspeed's complaint Wednesday (docket 1:24-cv-00156) in U.S. District Court for Southern Alabama.